"If God could tell the story of the……" — E. M. Forster
"If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious."
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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster
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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling,…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never…
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More Fictitious Quotes
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and…
— Russell Baker
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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
— Frederic Bastiat
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
— Samuel Johnson
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The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is…
— James Madison
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the…
— Paul Cezanne
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The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some…
— Nathan Farragut Twining
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The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions:…
— Auguste Comte
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The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world.…
— Ernest K. Gann
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This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really…
— Nathan Farragut Twining
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None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious.…
— Unknown Author
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The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality…
— Unknown Author
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